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LEFT ELMIRA COLLEGE EL BENO gine manufactory, tanneries, flour mills, and carriage factories. The proximity of the iron and coal fields of Pennsylva- nia to Elniira, with its numerous facili- ties for manufactures, gives the city a prominent position among the industrial centers of the country. There are large coal mines 20 miles S. of Elmira, and the Blossburg soft coal field about the same distance S. W. Just beyond the city limits are several quarries of excel- lent stone. Elmira is the seat of the State Reformatory, Elmira College, El- mira Industrial School, the Arnot-Ogden Hospital, and Elmira Free Academy. It has a public high school, the Steele Me- morial Library, several parks, electric lights and street railways, daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly periodicals, 2 National and several savings banks. Pop. (1910) 37,176; (1920) 45,305. ELMIRA COLLEGE, an educational institution in Elmira, N. Y., for women; founded in 1855 under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and in- structors, 32; students, 323; president, Frederick Lent, Ph. D. ELMO, or ERMO, a corrupted Italian- ized form of Erasmus, Bishop of For- miae, a town of ancient Italy, who suf- fered martyrdom under Diocletian, in A. D. 303. He is invoked by Italian sail- ors during storms. ELOCUTION, the art of correct speak- ing or reading in public, including the appropriate use of gestures. Great at- tention was paid by the ancients to this art as a branch of oratory. The rhetors in Greece had schools in which young men were trained in the correct use of the voice. Many of the Romans were sent to Greece to study and afterward there were similav teachers of elocution and oratory in Rome. In modern times, the^ stage has fostered the study of elo- cution and special attention has been given to it in the Paris Conservatoire, where the strictest canons of the art have been maintained. Many colleges have established professorships of elo- cution. Perhaps the most successful teacher of this century was Gustave Delsarte, whose theories and practice worked a revolution both in France and other countries. Notable schools of elo- cution have been established in this coun- try by Charles Wesley Emerson, Frank- lin H. Sargent, and others. The list of distinguished elocutionists includes the names of Burbank, Frobisher, Riddle, Riley, Powers, and Mackaye. ELOHIM (e-16-hem'), the ordinary name of God in the Hebrew Scriptures. There is the grammatical anomaly that this plural stands as the nominative to a singular verb. This has been held to imply that in the Divine nature there is a certain plurality and a certain unity. The plural has been called also the plu- ral of majesty. It is generally used of the true God, but Jehovah is deemed by far the more sacred name. ELOI (a-lwa'), or ELIGIUS (e-1/ jius), SAINT, Bishop of Noyon and apostle of Flanders; born in 588. Orig- inally a goldsmith, he became patron of goldsmiths and hammermen. He died in 658. EL PASO, a city, port of entry, and county-seat of El Paso co., Tex.; on the Rio Grande, and on the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe, the Texas and Pa- cific, El Paso and Southwestern, and the Mexican Central railroads; 712 miles N. W. of Austin. The pass El Paso del Norte, the principal thorough- fare between Mexico and New Mexico through the mountains, is near the city, which is a customs port. It is opposite Ciudad Juarez, the N. terminus of the Mexican Central railroad in Mexico, across the Rio Grande. Among the notable public buildings are the high school, County Court House, and the Federal Building. The State School of Mines is located here. El Paso has 3 National banks, daily and weekly news- papers, ore smelting establishments, and varied manufactures, and carries on an extensive grain trade. It is a noted health resort for victims of lung trouble. Pop. (1910) 39,279; (1920) 77^60. ELPHINSTONE, WILLIAM, a Scot- tish prelate, founder of King's College and University, Aberdeen; born in Glas- gow, in 1431. He was educated at Glas- gow College, and served four years as priest of St. Michael's in that city. He then went to France and became Pro- fessor of Law, first at Paris and subse- quently at Orleans, but about 1471-1474 he returned home at the request of Muir- head. Bishop of Glasgow, who made him commissary of the diocese. In 1478 he was made commissary of the Lothians, and in 1479 Archdeacon of Argyle. Soon after he was made Bishop of Ross; and in 1483 was transferred to the see of Aberdeen. In 1484 and 1486 he was commissioned to negotiate truces with England, and in 1488 was lord high- chancellor of the kingdom for several months. He was next sent on a mission to Germany, and after his return held the office of lord privy-seal till his death, in 1514. EL RENO, a city of Oklahoma, the county-seat of Canadian co. It is on the Rock Island, and the St. Louis, El Reno